OneThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomplayer took to social media to share a humorous result of skimping on airplane parts to the point of regret. Their cautionary tale stands in stark contrast to someimpressive engineering feats thatTears of the Kingdomplayers have been sharingsince the game’s May 12 release.
The latestZeldagame replacesBreath of the Wild’srunes with an array of entirely new powers. One of them isTears of the Kingdom’sUltrahand, which allows players to glue together a wide variety of objects in order to build all kinds of structures and vehicles, including machinery that lets Link take to the skies.
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That said, Nintendo imposed some major limitations onTears of the Kingdomattack dronesand other aircraft, which were most recently underlined by a humorous video that went viral on Reddit earlier this week. The brief clip shared by user Lannistark shows their Link attempt to take off in an improvised flying machine with entertainingly disastrous results.
While Lannistark joked about how they regretted skimping on airplane parts in the aftermath of their unsuccessful launch, seasonedTears of the Kingdomplayers will probably realize that their takeoff attempt hadn’t failed due to engineering shortcuts. Instead, it all went wrong once the central piece of the aircraft disappeared due to a built-in game mechanic that despawns certain vehicle parts after they’ve been in use for a full minute.
Though the fandom previously speculated that this mechanic could stem from the Switch’s technical limitations, a more plausible explanation is that it’s a deliberate design choice rooted in Nintendo’s desire not to make traversal too easy. Some players have still used Lannistark’s humorous video as an opportunity to bemoan the fact that there’s no way to remove this crippling time limit on vehicle components during endgame, similar to howunlocking the Autobuild ability inTears of the Kingdomstreamlines the process of iterating on complex machinery.
A portion of the player base seems particularly annoyed with this design choice due to the fact that Energy Cells already impose a fairly effective cap on the amount of time Link can stay airborne. With that battery mechanic already fulfilling the role of a stamina wheel for vehicles, some fans are arguing that despawning individual components after only 60 seconds is redundant, at best, and annoyingly excessive, at worst. Granted, there’s still time for Nintendo to address this complaint in a future update orTears of the KingdomDLC, assuming post-launch content is part of the company’s current plans for the game.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available now on Switch.
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